FACTBOX: Main findings of WHO tobacco report

(Reuters) - Here are the main findings of a World Health Organization report on the "Global Tobacco Epidemic."

* Tobacco control is severely underfunded, with 173 times as many dollars collected worldwide through tobacco tax revenues each year than are spent on tobacco control.

* Progress on implementing bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship has stalled, leaving more than 90 percent of the world's population without protection from tobacco industry marketing.

* Progress on increasing tobacco taxes has also come to a halt, with nearly 95 percent of the world's population living in countries where taxes represent less than 75 percent of the retail price.

* Compliance with smoke-free laws is low. Only 2 percent of the world's population live in countries with comprehensive smoke-free laws that are widely respected.

* Progress has been made on smoke-free policies, yet around 94 percent of people worldwide are still not protected from the dangers of second-hand tobacco smoke.

* Some 2.3 percent of the world's population -- representing more than 154 million people -- became newly covered by smoke-free laws in 2008, with nearly all of them living in low- and middle-income countries.

* Smoke-free policies at a local level are becoming increasingly common. Of the 100 biggest cities in the world, 22 are smoke-free.

* Less than 10 percent of the world's population are covered by any one of the key WHO measures to reduce smoking. These are:

1) Monitor tobacco use and the policies to prevent it

2) Protect people from tobacco smoke

3) Offer people help to quit using tobacco

4) Warn about the dangers of tobacco

5) Enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship

6) Raise taxes on tobacco

SOURCE: World Health Organization

(Compiled by Kate Kelland; Editing by Noah Barkin)